New Plans, New Features, New Prices

The first thing to know: you are under no obligation to switch over to our new plans. We intend to honor our legacy plans and pricing forever.

However, some new features will be made available only on the new plans. This is the first time we’ve updated our plans/pricing in over 4 years, and it reflects all of the ongoing development work we’ve done to add value to our offering. The new pricing will allow us to continue to invest!

The discounted annual option can potentially reduce your total spend if you currently have a legacy plan. If you’d like a pricing comparison, get in touch with us at support@grade.us and we’ll be happy to help.

PLUS: Add your own seats, one at a time. With all three of our new plans, you no longer need to call or email the Grade.us support team to get more profiles added to your account – simply go to the My Account area of your dashboard. Additionally, new plans no longer require you to purchase seats in blocks, so you never pay for more seats than you need.

New Texting Features (New Plans Only)

New texting features are out of beta and now available across all of our new plans, featuring:

Text Message Drip Campaigns

The new plans let you create multi-text message campaign sequences that can include as many messages as you want, sent out on a timetable of your choosing. They’re just like email campaigns, but with timing and content options better suited to the text message format.

MMS

You can now include an image with your text messages. Use this flexible feature to add a logo, coupon, flyer, or anything else you can think of.

Funnel activity tracking for individuals (beta)

By popular demand, we’ve introduced some recipient-specific click analytics. You can see the actions each recipient has taken on your landing page by going to Dashboard > Invites > Recipients > Funnel Activity (beta). This is just a first step in surfacing data that may be useful in maximizing outcomes from your campaigns. It’ll be evolving. Input welcome!

Add a custom field

We’ve added some more customization firepower to our email drip campaigns with a new placeholder.

The [recipient_custom_field_1] placeholder allows you to set a custom field – unique to individual recipients – that can be used for a variety of purposes – for example:

New Agency Marketing Materials (Agency+ Plans)

Our Marketing and Content team has created an Agency Resource Kit with a collection of 19 popular articles from the Grade.us blog that have been modified for adaptation and reuse however you see fit. Each article is provided in both .DOCX and .PDF format.

Links to these downloadable resources are now available to Agency+ users under “Resources” when you login. Let us know if these are useful!

Wanted: Beta Testers

We’re recruiting beta testers (among our customers) for two features currently under development:

API v2, which includes several new endpoints (including the ability to create new users!)

Universal SSL (All Plans)

We’re making infrastructure changes to ensure that all landing pages hosted on our platform can be served under HTTPS protocol, an increasingly important security and SEO consideration.

Customers who are using our nameservers or who have setup a white-label dashboard need not make any changes. Customers who have setup custom subdomains will want to make sure your CNAMEs are pointing to “proxy.reviewmgr.net” (not “gradeus.herokuapp.com” or “proxy.herokuapp.com” which were older published targets).

Other Improvements (All Plans)

Our developers are always working under the hood to improve platform performance, but we’ve pushed a number of smaller updates that may pique your interest:

About the Author

Garrett Sussman

Garrett is the Senior Content Manager at Grade.us, an online review management and marketing platform. When he's not crafting content, he's scouting the perfect ice coffee, devouring the newest graphic novels, and concocting a new recipe in the kitchen.

Gradeus Product Update: New Plans, New Features, New Prices was last modified: June 29th, 2018 by Garrett Sussman